Bénédicte Lemmelijn (1969) has been appointed Professor of Old Testament at the Research Unit of Biblical Studies at the Catholic University of Louvain (Belgium) in 2003, after having been Predoctoral and subsequently Postdoctoral Research Fellow of the Research Foundation – Flanders (FWO-V). Currently, she functions as director of the Louvain Centre for Septuagint Studies and Textual Criticism. Since 2008, she has equally been appointed Research Associate at the Faculty of Theology of the University of the Free State (South Africa) and was elected member of the executive committee of the International Organisation for Septuagint and Cognate Studies (IOSCS) in 2011.